Fiction: general & literary

When a man dies beneath a London Underground train in mysterious circumstances it's left to Stella Darnell to uncover the secrets of the case. Stella was the Detective's Daughter. Now she's solving cases of her own. A man has died under a late night train and Stella Darnell suspects it's murder. ...

When aspiring novelist Christopher Flinders drops out of university to write his masterpiece, his family is sceptical. But when he is taken up by the London editor Owen Goddard and his charming wife Diana it seems success is only just around the corner. 'So charming' Marian KeyesFrom the highly-a...

Spending an idyllic summer in the heart of the Dorset countryside, young Harry Brigandshaw receives word. The unimaginable has happened. Returning to Rhodesia in haste, Harry and his family are shaken to the core, yet more is to come… By 1914, England is at war with those closest to Harry enlist...

Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountain-top house over the summer. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines. When a fourth person arrives, the hou...

In an unspecified time and location,an unnamed boy is living what he feels to be an idyllic life in the faded and peeling Lido where his father is a lifeguard. He idolises his father never more so than when he saves the life of a suicidal man and he comes to believe that heroism is all. The arres...

In 1864, the British writer James Redding Ware, under the pseudonym Andrew Forrester, published The Female Detective, introducing readers to the first professional female detective character, Mrs. Gladden, and paving the way for the more famous female detectives of the early twentieth century, na...

This tender novel tells the tale of Alfgrimur, an abandoned child, whose mother gave birth to him in the turf-and-stone cottage of Bjorn of Brekkukot, the fisherman, on the outskirts of what is now Reykjavik.

Sophie Winters has always been a loving and giving child, who'd do anything for her family. Yet her father, Bill, has always seemed to resent her. For her mother's sake, Sophie learns to live with Bill's animosity, until the night he returns home drunk and forces himself upon her. She is left pre...